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spam being sent from my e-mail addres

mushrooms

Posted 31 March 2013 - 12:56 AM

mushrooms

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hello

i have a yahoo e-mail account that started sending out spam e-mails a couple of days ago, to anybody i've ever sent an e-mail to, not just people in my contacts. i did a scan with super anti-spyware which found a few things, and malware bytes anti-malware, which found nothing. the log-in record says someone logged in from OH,USA (not me). I changed my password but its still sending stuff out. the stuff that is sent does not appear in my "sent" folder, but i keep getting e-mails saying failure notice, email not sent. When i turned my computer on today i have 2 new icons on my desktop that i didn't put there, they're both faint; one of them says desktop.ini and one of them is a microsoft word doc, but with the ending doc.x, both icons are fainter than all others

OTL will open but not run (none of the alternate versions).

i posted this topic in "web browsers and e-mails", but got told to post it here